Jean-François Labbé

Jean-François Labbé
Born June 15, 1972
Sherbrooke, QC, CAN
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 172 lb (78 kg; 12 st 4 lb)
Position Goaltender
Caught Left
Played for New York Rangers
Columbus Blue Jackets
HC Lada Togliatti
Augsburger Panther
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers
Vienna Capitals
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 19932011

Jean-François "J. F." Labbé, nicknamed Ti-Mine, (born June 15, 1972 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers and the Columbus Blue Jackets

Playing career

After playing four seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Labbé began a very successful American Hockey League career. He played for the Prince Edward Island Senators, Cornwall Aces, Hershey Bears, Hamilton Bulldogs, Hartford Wolf Pack and Syracuse Crunch in his AHL tenure. His best season came in 1996–1997 with the Hershey Bears, when he won both the Hap Holmes Memorial Award for lowest goals against average and the Les Cunningham Award for league MVP. Labbé won the Calder Cup with the Hartford Wolf Pack in 2000.

Labbé appeared in 15 NHL games: one with the New York Rangers at the end of the 1999–2000 season and 14 with the Columbus Blue Jackets during the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons.

He played for the Saint-Georges Garaga in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey in 2003–2004 after a short stint with the Tolyatti Lada in the Russian Hockey Super League.

Labbé has played in the DEL for three seasons, with Augsburger Panther in 2004–05 and with the Sinupret Ice Tigers in 2005–06 and 2006–07. For the 2008 and 2009 season he joined the Vienna Capitals in Austria's Erste Bank Hockey League.

He finished his career in 2011 after a season with the Sherbrooke Saint-François in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey.[1]

Records

Labbé currently holds records with the Syracuse Crunch for:

Awards and honours

Award Year
QMJHL
All-Star Team 1991–92
Jacques Plante Memorial Trophy 1991–92
CHL Third All-Star Team 1991–92
CoHL
All-Star Team 1993–94
American Hockey League
First All-Star Team 1995–96
Calder Cup 1996–97, 1999–2000
Hap Holmes Memorial Award 1996–97, 1999–2000
Aldege "Baz" Bastien Memorial Award 1996–97 [2]
Les Cunningham Award 1996–97 [3]
Second All-Star Team 2001–02
DEL
Best GAA 2005–06

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Preceded by
Manny Legace and Scott Langkow
Winner of the Hap Holmes Memorial Award
1996–97
Succeeded by
Jean-Sébastien Giguère and Tyler Moss
Preceded by
Brad Smyth
Winner of the Les Cunningham Award
1996–97
Succeeded by
Steve Guolla